The Municipality of Porto Torres wins the tender "City that reads"

The Municipality of Porto Torres is first in the ranking of the winners of the "City that reads" tender of the Ministry of Culture. A goal that will allow the municipal library to receive 30 thousand euros to carry out integrated activities of various kinds for the promotion of books and reading.

The opportunity was aimed at the Municipalities that had obtained the qualification of "City that reads" for the two-year period 2020-2021, and provided for a total of one million euros to be assigned to 34 "exemplary" projects, throughout Italy, capable of involve schools, libraries, institutions and associations by creating an ecosystem conducive to reading. The project, written in collaboration with Comes Cooperativa mediateche sarde which manages the library, came first in the rankings of cities with 15,000 to 50,000 inhabitants. Partners will be, in addition to Comes, Fidapa BPW Italy Section of Porto Torres, the Istituto comprensivo Don Antonio Sanna, Radio del Golfo and the association La Camera Chiara.

«The goal is to promote reading in the city as an individual practice and shared by a community that recognizes it as an identity value to be encouraged and cultivated through active, creative and inclusive participation actions». This is the meaning of the project entitled "Legarsi alla Lettura: the thread of a community that reads", as Carmelana Nuvoli of Comes explains. The project draws its suggestions from "Legarsi alla montagna", the relational work of art by Maria Lai with which the Sardinian artist, on 8 September 1981, invited the inhabitants of Ulassai to tie up their houses with a blue cotton ribbon whose final end was anchored to the mountain, place of identity and sustenance of the whole community.
«This funding is the recognition of a municipal library that stands out for its initiative and quality of the proposal - declares the councilor for Culture Maria Bastiana Cocco - but also the confirmation that Porto Torres is a city of passionate and constant readers. A sign that gives us confidence in the future».